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Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
if you wanna be friends with me all you gotta do is act like you’re already friends with me
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"There is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of these loveable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they’re often just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really, want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else."
- Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
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"You don’t practice until you can do it right, you practice until you can’t do it wrong."
- Shonda Rhimes (via br0sh)
"Introverts are much less often groomed for leadership positions, even though there’s really fascinating research out recently from Adam Grant at [The Wharton School of business at the University of Pennsylvania] finding that introverted leaders often deliver better outcomes when their employees are more proactive. They’re more likely to let those employees run with their ideas, whereas an extroverted leader might, almost unwittingly, be more dominant and be putting their own stamp on things, and so those good ideas never come to the fore."
- Quiet, Please: Unleashing ‘The Power Of Introverts’ : NPR
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"I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk."
- James D. Sass
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"My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn’t, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soon as whatever it was got under way I’d be found in a corner. That was who I was…that was what I did. I was the kid with the book."
- Neil Gaiman
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The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from you more than what you tell them. They don’t remember what you try to teach them.
They remember what you are.
"- Jim Henson
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"I want to talk to you. I want you to hear all about everything. I want to tell you that it’s been 164 days since we last talked and I want to hear you say that you know, that you’ve been counting, too. You’re the first person I feel like calling when something silly happens and the only person I know that would understand why I’m pushing myself to not talk to you. I could argue that you don’t know me anymore. But I know that you do, and that is why I still can’t talk to you."
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